Washington, DC –June 5, 2019--The 19,000-member Christian Medical
Association (CMA, www.cmda.org) today voiced
strong support for the administration's move to stop taxpayer funding of the
use of fetal tissue, from elective abortions, for research purposes.
"This courageous and right decision gets the government and
our tax dollars out of the sordid business of using tissue from developing
babies who have died as a result of elective abortions," noted Jonathan Imbody, CMA
Vice President for Government Affairs.
"Our government now will focus our
resources instead on developing sustainable, ethical research that has real potential
to save real lives.
"This combination of adhering to life-honoring ethical
standards while also aggressively pursuing and investing in scientific innovation
is the best path to solid advances in medicine that every American can support
and many patients can embrace for healing."
The National Institute of Health (NIH) is ending all intramural
research that involves fetal tissue obtained from abortions. In the future, an
ethics advisory board convened by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human
Services (HHS) will evaluate projects that propose to use fetal tissue obtained
from abortions. The NIH recently announced a $20 million research program to
develop models that do not use fetal tissue from abortions.
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